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It was announced on the 1st that the Ministry of Science and ICT(Minister Young Min You, hereinafter MSIT) and National Research Foundation of Korea (hereinafter NRF) chose Sungroh Yoon, prof. of SNU Dept. of ECE, as August’s ‘Scientist and Technologist of the Month’

Master’s graduate of SNU school of engineering and a professional writer of ‘progressive practical books’. These words, infrequently brought together, explain author Seungsoo Lim(43) without any contradiction.

In the reading room, the shelves are densely packed with books related to Japan. Technical books on Artificial Intelligence and IoT, and publications like Science Technology White Paper and Medium, Small-size Business White Papers are easily spotted.

In the late 1990s, an engineering student from Seoul Science High School, who was a member of the SNU amateur choir, laid his hands on a baton by coincidence and felt an adrenaline rush. He was a bass baritone of the choir but got a chance to conduct Faure’s ‘Requiem’.

Recently, there have been successive predictions that the price of semiconductors will fall after reaching its peak. The spot price of D-RAM, which was more than 9 dollars last January, has recently dropped to less than 8 dollars. The price of NAND flash also dropped 17.5% compared to earlier this year.

Department Chair (Professor Byoungho Lee), Vice Chair for Student Affairs (Professor Sungroh Yoon), and Vice Chair for Research (Professor Yongtaek Hong) attended to present awards and offer words of encouragement. 1st place: FC봉봉 / 2nd place: SOU / 3rd place (tied): 축잘R, C++

SNU college of engineering announced on the 25th that Kyoung Mu Lee, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was elected as the next president of Korean Conference of Computer Vision (KCCV). The one-year presidential term will start this coming 1st of August.

SNU selected 25 promising researchers as ‘2018 Leading Creative Researchers’ who will be supported by SNU to lay the groundwork for the cultivation of talented researchers. The conferment ceremony was held at the Faculty Club on the 16th.

Jong-Ho Lee, Director of SNU Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center (ISRC), had an interview with Hyun-Ho Kim, executive adviser of NewSys, about Korea’s semiconductor industry at the ISRC director’s office, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, in the afternoon of the 5th

the debaters pointed out that all subjects of the economy should run on their feet to obtain competent global human resources.